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Picasso's Lovers: A famous artist. An aspiring writer. The lifetime of secrets between them

Picasso's Lovers: A famous artist. An aspiring writer. The lifetime of

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'A bold, sumptuous portrait of a great artist and the women who inspired, frustrated, loved, and loathed him... Picasso's Lovers is an epic, sensuous delight' Kate Quinn, New York Times...
Behind the Gloss: Disco, divas and dressing up. Welcome to the wild world of 1970s fashion

Behind the Gloss: Disco, divas and dressing up. Welcome to the wild

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Dressing up. Partying all night. This is the world of 1970s fashion, and this book is your backstage pass.Featuring over 25 exclusive interviews with the movers and shakers of the...
Now or Never: A Dunkirk Story (Voices #1)

Now or Never: A Dunkirk Story (Voices #1)

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A gripping adventure in an exciting new series reflecting the authentic, unsung stories of our past! "The superb Voices series takes unsung heroes of the past and imagines them recounting...
Red Menace

Red Menace

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**An Irish Times best book of 2024 so far**"A very early candidate for the crime novel of the year" IRISH TIMESLive Aid, July 1985. The great and the good of...
Tell Me How It Ends: Sixties glamour meets film noir in a gripping drama of long-buried secrets and dark revenge

Tell Me How It Ends: Sixties glamour meets film noir in a gripping

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'A spellbinding read ... the glamour of early Sixties showbiz' LOUISE CANDLISH'Mesmerising and powerful ... an extraordinary sense of time and place' ELLY GRIFFITHS'A stylish and page-turning mystery' RACHEL HORE'Gripping...
Clare Woods: Strange Meetings

Clare Woods: Strange Meetings

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British artist Clare Woods is internationally regarded as one of the most significant painters working today. Her paintings and works on paper are found in important public and private collections...
The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China: A History of Conflict

The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China: A History of Conflict

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'Lawrence James is the doyen of Empire historians' The Spectator'James' writing is always full of energy and animation; he has an excellent eye for revealing detail' William Dalrymple'James has a...
P.S. Burn This Letter Please: The fabulous and fraught birth of modern drag, in the queens' own words

P.S. Burn This Letter Please: The fabulous and fraught birth of modern

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With an introduction from RuPaul's Drag Race winner Sasha VelourTheir greatest act of resistance was simply existing In 1950s New York, a group of drag pioneers found work in a...
The Pianist

The Pianist

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The powerful memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds.'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival...
Six Motives for Murder

Six Motives for Murder

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'Frances Brody has made it to the top rank of crime writers' DAILY MAIL     A charming historical mystery set in 1960s Yorkshire, starring prisoner governor and amateur sleuth...
Anatomy of a Nation: A History of British Identity in 50 Documents

Anatomy of a Nation: A History of British Identity in 50 Documents

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From an obscure, misty archipelago on the fringes of the Roman world to history's largest empire and originator of the world's mongrel, magpie language - this is Britain's past. But,...
Memphis: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023

Memphis: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023

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LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE'A rhapsodic hymn to Black women' New York Times Book Review'Epic yet intimate' Cosmopolitan'Ferocious and compassionate' Irish TimesFAMILY...
Mr B.: George Balanchine's Twentieth Century

Mr B.: George Balanchine's Twentieth Century

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Balanchine's radical approach to choreography reinvented the art of dance and his richly evocative ballets made him a lasting legend. Today, nearly thirty years after his death, the man is...
Through the Leopard's Gaze

Through the Leopard's Gaze

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In her captivating memoir Through the Leopard's Gaze, Njambi McGrath details the harrowing circumstances of her life as a young girl in Kenya, who one fateful night was beaten to...
Harold Shipman

Harold Shipman

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Harold Shipman - The Doctor of Death
Secrets in the Dark: THE glamorous blockbuster and the escapist treat you NEED!

Secrets in the Dark: THE glamorous blockbuster and the escapist treat

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The ultimate glamorous, escapist blockbuster - perfect for fans of Melanie Blake, Jackie Collins and Shirley Conran's Lace.     'Just the kind of glamorous escapism we all desperately need...
Vulcan Boys: From the Cold War to the Falklands: True Tales of the Iconic Delta V Bomber

Vulcan Boys: From the Cold War to the Falklands: True Tales of the

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The Vulcan, the second of the three V bombers built to guard the UK during the Cold War has become an aviation icon like the Spitfire, its delta shape is...
Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth II

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Rod Green explores the personal and political intrigues that have dogged the House of Windsor, including the Queen's fascinating relationships with prime ministers from Winston Churchill and Antony Eden to...
Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears

Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears

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The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, focusing on the brutal battles, the starry rivalries,...
Decoy

Decoy

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The shocking true story of one of Britain's most secretive, groundbreaking and successful police covert operations Bristol, 1979.An attacker roams the streets...Young women are warned not to go out alone...Enter...
Mary Poppins in the Park

Mary Poppins in the Park

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Discover the joy and wonder of Mary Poppins in the classic adventures!The original and classic stories available now in all-new luxurious livery. Whether it's a lion loose in the park...
Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age

Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age

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The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance networks of World...
Our Stories: 75 Years of the NHS from the People Who Built It, Lived It and Love It

Our Stories: 75 Years of the NHS from the People Who Built It, Lived

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FOREWORD BY ADAM KAY, AUTHOR OF THIS IS GOING TO HURTPortion of proceeds go to NHS Charities Together.A beautiful and heart-warming collection of stories, this landmark publication tells, for the...
Mary Poppins in the Park

Mary Poppins in the Park

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Discover the joy and wonder of Mary Poppins in the classic adventures!The original and classic stories available now in all-new luxurious livery. Whether it's a lion loose in the park...
Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: The Living, Dead, and Undead in Japan's Imperialism, 1895-1945

Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: The Living, Dead, and Undead in

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In this major reassessment of Japanese imperialism in Asia, Mark Driscoll foregrounds the role of human life and labor. Drawing on subaltern postcolonial studies and Marxism, he directs critical attention...
Lesbian Potentiality and Feminist Media in the 1970s

Lesbian Potentiality and Feminist Media in the 1970s

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In Lesbian Potentiality and Feminist Media in the 1970s, Rox Samer explores how 1970s feminists took up the figure of the lesbian in broad attempts to reimagine gender and sexuality....
The Battle of the Sexes in French Cinema, 1930-1956

The Battle of the Sexes in French Cinema, 1930-1956

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In The Battle of the Sexes in French Cinema, 1930-1956, Noel Burch and Genevieve Sellier adopt a sociocultural approach to films made in France before, during, and after World War...
Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil

Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil

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In November 1916, a young Afro-Brazilian musician named Donga registered sheet music for the song "Pelo telefone" ("On the Telephone") at the National Library in Rio de Janeiro. This apparently...
Inshallah United: A story of faith and football

Inshallah United: A story of faith and football

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Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Awards 2023 'There was always hope. There was always next season. Inshallah.'Inshallah United is about growing up as a strictly...
A Very Private School

A Very Private School

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THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Times, Spectator and Waterstones Book of the Year'Shocking and moving' Guardian'Top marks for its searing frankness, framed in wistfully beautiful prose' The Times At eight...
The War Diaries: World War II Written by the People Who Lived Through It

The War Diaries: World War II Written by the People Who Lived Through

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Based on select writings from an exceptional Amsterdam archive containing more than two thousand Dutch diaries from World War II, The War Diaries illuminates a part of history we haven't...
The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel

The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel

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As seen on The TODAY Show!Bestselling author ReShonda Tate presents a fascinating fictional portrait of Hattie McDaniel, one of Hollywood's most prolific but woefully underappreciated stars-and the first Black person...
Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World

Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World

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A Times and Sunday Times Book of the YearA Wall Street Journal Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the YearA Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearA New Yorker...
The House of Fever

The House of Fever

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'Shimmering with menace, this is a deliciously Gothic treat' Heat'What a book! So intriguing, with a terrific plot and strong characters' Prima'Simmering with secrets, this beguiling mystery is a dark...
I Have a Dream - 60th Anniversary Edition

I Have a Dream - 60th Anniversary Edition

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With new forewords and an afterword by Martin Luther King III, Dr. Bernice A. King, and Dexter Scott KingA beautiful collectible edition celebrating the 60th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther...
The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past

The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past

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  A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'An absolute joy to read and an early contender for every list of History Books of the Year' Sunday Telegraph 'On nearly every...
What's Tha Up To Nah?

What's Tha Up To Nah?

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'Many times I heard people say that you'll have no friends if you're a policeman. How wrong they were. If you were right with them, they were right with you.'PC...
A Woman Lived Here: Alternative Blue Plaques, Remembering London's Remarkable Women

A Woman Lived Here: Alternative Blue Plaques, Remembering London's

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'A pretty awesome present for the feminist in your life' - Caroline Criado Perez, OBE, author of Do It Like a WomanAt the last count, the Blue Plaque Guide honours...
Massacre in the Clouds: An American Atrocity and the Erasure of History

Massacre in the Clouds: An American Atrocity and the Erasure of

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In March 1906, American soldiers on the island of Jolo in the southern Philippines surrounded and killed 1000 local men, women, and children, known as Moros, on top of an...
Before the Light Fades: A Family Story of Resistance - 'Fascinating' Sarah Waters

Before the Light Fades: A Family Story of Resistance - 'Fascinating'

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'A fascinating story of courage, doubt and defiance across three generations' SARAH WATERS'A fierce and beautiful book' EDMUND DE WAAL'Heartfelt and upfront... A grieving daughter rediscovers her mother's political past'...
The Wide World: An epic novel of family fortune, twisted secrets and love - the first volume in THE GLORIOUS YEARS series

The Wide World: An epic novel of family fortune, twisted secrets and

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ONE OF THE TIMES' FAVOURITE NOVELS OF 2023'The Wide World is one of his best . . . Compellingly plotted, stuffed with great characters, thought-provokingly situated in history - honestly,...
The Princess: The moving new novel about the young Diana

The Princess: The moving new novel about the young Diana

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A deeply moving new novel about the young Princess DianaDiana believes in love. Growing up amid the fallout of her parents' bitter divorce, she takes refuge in romantic novels. She...
Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream

Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream

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'An important book' Martin Wolf, Financial Times (BOOK OF THE YEAR)The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American Dream, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning...
A Really Strange and Wonderful Time: The Chapel Hill Music Scene: 1989-1999

A Really Strange and Wonderful Time: The Chapel Hill Music Scene:

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The first biography of the thriving and influential rock scene in Chapel Hill, which gave the world artists like Ben Folds Five, Superchunk, and Squirrel Nut ZippersNorth Carolina has always...
Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream

Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream

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'An important book' Martin Wolf, Financial Times (BOOK OF THE YEAR)The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American Dream, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning...
The Wide World: An epic novel of family fortune, twisted secrets and love - the first volume in THE GLORIOUS YEARS series

The Wide World: An epic novel of family fortune, twisted secrets and

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ONE OF THE TIMES' FAVOURITE NOVELS OF 2023'The Wide World is one of his best . . . Compellingly plotted, stuffed with great characters, thought-provokingly situated in history - honestly,...
My Manchester United Years: The autobiography of a footballing legend and hero

My Manchester United Years: The autobiography of a footballing legend

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Bobby Charlton is Manchester United through and through. One of the original 'Busby Babes'; he has devoted his career to the club, playing in 754 games over 17 years and...
Percy Leason: An Artist's Life

Percy Leason: An Artist's Life

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Who would have thought that a boy born in 1889 from the Victorian Mallee would become a successful artist on New York's Staten Island? This finely illustrated, exhaustively researched and...